top ten new scientist space vids

http://www.newscientist.com/blog/space/2007/11/top-10-space-videos.html

the meteor one was particularly cool

One of my favourite pics. Sunset on Mars:

http://homepage.powerup.com.au/~boldajis/images/sunset_mars.jpg

very cool.

One of my favourite pics. Sunset on Mars:

False color though, isnt it? I never understand why but most images I have seen of Mars have been captioned that they are artificially colored afterwards. What I dont get is why cant they send up a top of the line digital camera with the mars vehicles so you get crisp, clear, high res, wide fov shots. All the weird fish bowl blackwhite shots confuse me.

Not that it isnt f***ing amazing and awesome to see.

its not a question of the technology to take the picture, its a question of sending it back to earth. depending on how shades of gray they use, the image size could be between 3 and 1 Million times bigger. (i would suggest the latter)

56K Death
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/89/STS-116_spacewalk_1.jpg

last edited by trog at 22:48:28 26/Nov/07

bitchin pic, ta. spacepix are awesome! subscribe to one of the APOD RSS feeds for the good stuff. Here's a pretty one.

check out the NASA HD video gallery (especially Life In Orbit) HD Galley

Nice find there Spook

I have some uber hi-res images from NASA but they're like 40 meg each or something stupid, I ain't uploadin that on 16k/s bpa cable :( I tried to find them on the NASA website a few months ago but couldn't figure out where they were.

I googled "mars sunset" > Extra Large images and this popped up.

CLICK it to toggl fullsize (woot for in-tag javascripting :))
http://chamorrobible.org/images/photos/gpw-200702-49-NASA-ISS007-E-10807-space-sunset-20030721-Pacific-Ocean-large.jpg

last edited by 3dee at 05:27:58 27/Nov/07

I googled "mars sunset" > Extra Large images and this popped up.

I've found Google Images to be s***-poor lately in terms of image searches.

I'd love to see an actual Mars orbital sunset pic like the Earth one you pasted above :)

I am pretty sure that is actually Mars you can tell by the cloud formations.

False color though, isnt it? I never understand why but most images I have seen of Mars have been captioned that they are artificially colored afterwards.

I think its due to the filters used on the cameras, they don't match human color perception. I'm pretty sure they try to make it look as close as possible to what it would if you were standing there though, rather than make it look pretty like they do with supernovas and s***.

well the extra colours in nebula/supernova pics are the UV, infra-red and x-ray (and whatever other non-visible spectrums) included in a visible way. Supernova's etc don't look all that great in the visible spectrum.

those piccies make awsome desktops :)

that spectacular meteors vid... i saw a meteor just like some of the ones in that vid when i was out jogging in the valley one time (right on dusk)

i think i even started a thread about it..

What the hell is that? (referring to signature above)
hmm it's gone now ????

the first pic of moon tt was taken by change no.1 which launched recently
http://dahe.cn/xwzx/gn/W020071126415982654701.jpg

I am pretty sure that is actually Mars you can tell by the cloud formations.

The filename is space-sunset-20030721-Pacific-Ocean-large.jpg

The filename is space-sunset-20030721-Pacific-Ocean-large.jpg

I think he was just fishing. No one would think that's Mars (right?!).

YOU FAIL

(the other guy not you parabol)